Community Day Activities 7- 9
7. Kura Kaupapa Experience
Get a glimpse into two Māori language immersion institutions just a 10 minute walk from Campus. This experience will allow you the opportunity to visit Te Kōhanga Reo o Ngā Kuaka and Tōku Māpihi Maurea Kura Kaupapa Māori. In the morning you’ll interact with the teachers and students of the kōhanga reo (Māori immersion pre-school) and share morning tea together. You’ll then break for a packed lunch and continue on to the kura (Māori immersion primary school) where you’ll interact with both students and staff.
A walking bus will be leaving Campus by 11am and make its way down Silverdale Road to the kōhanga and kura. The group will return to Campus by 4pm. This activity has a limit of 30 people for an intimate, unique experience.
Cost: US$20 (koha [gift to local hosts] and packed lunch included).
Capacity: 30 attendees
To register for this activity, complete the Community Day Activity section on page 2 of your Conference Registration
8. The Wānanga Alternative
The self-development of Wānanga models of education by Maori in New Zealand have been more than a cultural revitalization effort – each institution stands as a manifest critique of the short-comings of the Higher education system. In particular they problematize the reproduction of dominant settler cultures within the Academy that is enabled through selected structures, practices, thinking, curriculum, pedagogies, governance, policies and resource manipulation. This workshop will be of benefit to those seeking to not only critically understand the constraints and limitations of their own Higher Education settings but more importantly, make more meaningful change.
This event involves an onsite visit to one of the Campus sites of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Visitors will get to hear presenters from each of the three Wānanga; see visual presentations and participate in workshop activities to share where they are up to in their struggle in resisting colonizing imperatives, while simultaneously building transforming resistance. This workshop confronts the need to ‘stop tolerating and contributing to forming our own colonization. This activity has a limit of 30 people for an intimate, unique experience.
Cost: US$30 (transport, koha [gift to local hosts], and packed lunch included).
Capacity: 30 attendees
To register for this activity, complete the Community Day Activity section on page 2 of your Conference Registration
9. Weaving Workshop
This workshop will focus on the Indigenous connections we have with the land, and how we can express those connnections by creating a functional and beautiful woven piece from our taonga (treasured) plant harakeke. The vessels we will create hold historic narratives and embody the connections to our tūpuna (ancestors). These connections manifest through raranga (weaving) and arise in the sharing co-operation of whanauangatanga (relationships).
This forum will provide an intimate space for creation, contemplation, and reflective discussion on the sustainability of Indigenous expression and our relationships to whenua (land, placenta). This activity has a limit of 15 people for an intimate, unique experience.
Kahutoi Te Kanawa, comes from a dynasty of kairaranga( weaving practitioners) who have passed on their knowledge and skills for over 170 years. Like her forebears, she is a kairaranga, educator, researcher and is currently completing a creative Phd on Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer.
Cost: US$25 (materials and packed lunch included).
Capacity: 15 attendees
To register for this activity, complete the Community Day Activity section on page 2 of your Conference Registration